ABSTRACT
Digital archiving emerged during the 1990s as a compulsory support for digital recordkeeping in governments and digital publication in academia. Its concepts are governed generally by archival theory, while many of its practices have increasingly been borrowed from library and general information science work with digital objects. Progress in research dealing with the obstacles to reliable archiving of digital objects has been steady but slow since the early 1990s, but the basic outlines of a set of workable solutions are beginning to emerge and real digital archives are now functioning and providing operational data to help bootstrap the process.
